The Customer Success & Operations Lead oversees customer onboarding, support, and long-term success while improving operational processes and leading the customer success team.
This role is ideal for someone with customer success or e-commerce experience who enjoys building relationships, solving problems, and delivering exceptional customer experiences.
Responsibilities
Customer Onboarding
- Guide creators and brands through the complete onboarding process.
- Assist customers with connecting Shopify and other e-commerce platforms.
- Help customers upload products, artwork, and configure their stores.
- Verify successful integrations before customers begin selling.
- Create onboarding documentation, tutorials, and training materials.
Customer Success
- Respond to customer questions through email, chat, and occasional phone or video calls.
- Troubleshoot platform, order, and integration issues.
- Coordinate with technology, supply chain, and leadership teams to resolve customer concerns.
- Build strong relationships with creators and brands to ensure long-term success.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the customer experience.
Operations & Process Improvement
- Build and improve customer onboarding processes.
- Maintain and expand the knowledge base, FAQs, and training documentation.
- Identify recurring customer issues and recommend improvements to product and operations.
- Test new platform features before release and provide feedback to the development team.
- Track customer success metrics and prepare regular reporting.
- Supervise, mentor, and coach Customer Success Representatives as the team grows.
- Manage daily customer support operations and ensure service level expectations are met.
- Review support quality and provide ongoing coaching and feedback.
- Assist with recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and training future Customer Success team members.
- Help build a high-performance, customer-first culture.
Qualifications
- Excellent written and spoken English (required).
- 3+ years of customer success, customer support, or e-commerce operations experience.
- Previous experience leading or supervising a customer service team preferred.
- Experience supporting U.S.-based customers.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
- Positive attitude and commitment to delivering outstanding customer experiences.
Preferred Experience
- Shopify or other e-commerce platforms
- Print-on-demand or apparel industry
- Loom or other customer training tools
- ChatGPT and AI productivity tools
- Process improvement and documentation
Success Metrics (First 90 Days)
- Average first response time under 2 business hours.
- Average ticket resolution time under 24 hours.
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) above 95%.
- 95%+ onboarding completion rate.
- Average customer onboarding completed within 48 hours.
- Knowledge base and onboarding documentation fully established.
- Successfully supervise and develop at least one Customer Success Representative.
- Continuously improve onboarding efficiency and customer satisfaction.
What Success Looks Like
You create a customer experience that becomes a competitive advantage for IdeaMax. Every creator and brand feels supported from their first interaction through long-term growth. As the company scales, you build the people, processes, documentation, and operational discipline needed to support thousands of customers while maintaining exceptional service quality.
This is more than a customer support role - it is an opportunity to build and lead the Customer Success organization as IdeaMax grows.